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Yesterday, at the Beck cate, alter] y fifty four years of faithful, loving i life during most of which time they I had. never seen, each otherr-the two ' old comrades and their wives, with a small company of relatives and I friends, sat down to a memorial dinner given .by Sergt. and Mrs. Z. C. Hamilton honoring the sergant’s old captain and his bride, Capt. and Mrs. John L. Merriam.There has been a strange parallel between the lives of these two old comrades and friends. Both were born in New York, the sergeant 90 years, the captain eigli tv-seven years, ago. In 1853” the captain came to California, the sergeant came in 1854. On Sept. ^0, John L. Merriam enlisted in the first California Cavalry at Sonora, Tuolumne County, and was mustered in a little later at San Francisco. The following year, as first lieutenant. Mr. Merriam was th transferred to the Second California Cavalry, where, on May 23, 1863,Z. C. Hamilton was enlisted in the same regiment and assigned by Capt. Merriam, as he now is. td[ his own company. Co L. in which he'was soon after made sergeant.In January 1864, the regiment was ordered to San Pedro with the hope of going east and taking partin the _great t ruggle^ then_i n DXPigress, but instead they were assigned to frontier duty in Arizona, where they went in March of the same year. Here—in—warfare—and. watching with the vigilant Indian .foe, the two comrades spent nearly two years; and it was in this period, in a fight with the red foes at Cron-ton Springs,_100 miles .east^of Tucson, Ariz., that Sergt. Hamilton lost his right arm. He continued in service, however, and his old commander says he was a better soldier with one arm than many who had two.In 1866, Capt. Merriam was^ dis-
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1922
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